Clothes wringer guard



Oct. 26, 1937. N G, PFE|| 2,097,132

CLOTHES WRI'NGER GUARD Filed Nov. 50, 1934 s VA @mamy Patented Oct. 26,19.37

` UNiTED sTATEs PATENT oFFlcE 2,097,132 CLOTHES WRINGER GUARD NicholasG. Pfeii, Oshkosh, Wis.

Application November 30, 1934, Serial No. 755,400

1 Claim. (Cl. 68-32) This invention appertains to clothes wringers,frame of a clothes wringer, only a fragment of and more particularly tomeans for preventing the wringer being shown.

the fingers of the laundress from being caught Referring to the drawingin detail, wherein between the wringer rolls incident to the feedsimilarreference characters designate correr, ing of clothes therebetween.sponding parts, throughout the several views, the 5 In the operation ofclothes wringers, often letter A generally indicates my improvedatpainful injuries are caused from persons having tachment, and W a.clothes Wringer with which their fingers caught between the wringerrolls. the same can be associated.

This is particularly true where the wringer is The clothes wringer Wforms no part of my I power-driven, such as in clothes washing mapresentinvention, and has merely been illuschines. In some cases the clotheshave to be trated to show the use of the novel attachment, pushedbetween the rolls, which results in the and the wringer can be of anydesired construcflngers being caught. tion or make. As shown, thewringer includes My invention has for one of its primary obside posts oruprights 5 and 6, connected together 1.3 jects the provision of a. novelattachment, which at their upper and lower ends by cross bars 'I and 15can be readily secured to conventional clothes 8- The Side DOSUS 01"uprightS 5 and 5 rotatably Wringers either of the hand or power-driventype, support the wringer rolls 9 and Il), and the top and which willform an efficient means for guiding roll 9 can be urged by leaf spring Il, or the like,

the clothes between the wringer rolls, and effecinto intimate contactwith the lower roll. These m tively prevent the fingers from coming intoclose rolls 9 and le can either be power-driven or proximity to therolls, whereby danger of the Operated by hand, aS Can be Weil understoodlingers being caught is prevented. My novel attachment A includes siderails Another important object of my invention is to I5 and le, to whichcan be secured in any desired provide a combination safety .guard andclothes manner a bottom feeding Plate |7- TniS Piate feeding attachmentfor wringers, the device em- 1 ll is preferably formed. from sheetkmetal, and 25 J bodying an inclined feed plate attached to the can beslightly arched to facilitate the placing frame of the wringer, andterminating in front of the clothes thereon, and the feeding of the ofand substantially between the wringer rolls, clothes between the wringerrolls. Secured to and a guard plate overlying the feed plate, the theupper faces of the side rails I5 and I6 is a guard plateterminatingasufcient distance away 60p gllad Piate i3 Which Can also be'formed 90 from the wringer rolls to prevent the hands of the from sheetmetal. This guard Piate i3 Can haVe u operator from reaching the wringerrolls incident its outer edge rolled, as at I9, to form a stop for tothe feeding of the clothes to the rollers between the hands of theoDeI'atOT, and t0 also facilitate the guard and feed plates. the placingof the clothes between the guard and A further object of my invention isto provide feed plates. By referring to Figure 1 it can be an improvedsafety attachment for clothes seen that the front edges of the plates I1and I8 wringers of the above character, which will be terminate in thesame vertical plane, but that durable and efficient in use, one thatwill be the Outer end 0f the plate i3 terminates 00n- Simple and easy t0manufacture, and one which siderably short of the outer edge of the feedplate can be placed upon the market at a reasonable il. ThiS OTmS aCOYlVenient means Of-piaeing 40 40 COSt. f the clothes on the feed plateand for giving the With these and other objects in View, theinvenclothes the initial push between the tWO Platestion consists in thenovel construction, arrange- The attachment A can be secured rigidlyment, and formation of parts, as will be hereinon the frame of theWringel' W in any desired after more specifically described, claimed,and Way, and OI the pulpOSe Of HUStratOn I 1laVe 45- illustrated in theaccompanying drawing, in shown side .angle brackets 26 and a bottomangle which drawingzbracket 2| for this purpose. In al1 events it isFigure 1 is a vertical section through a Wringer essential that theforward end of the feed plate and my improved attachment, the View beingterminate adjacent t0 the meeting point 0f the taken substantially onthe line I-I of Figure 2, wringer rolls 9 and I0 so that as the clothesare 50 looking in the direction of the arrows. fed thereover, the rollswill grip the clothes so p Figure 2 is a top plan view of my improvedatas to feed the clothes between the same. tachment applied to a clotheswringer. The side rails I5 and I6 preferably diverge Figure Sis afrontelevation of my improved attoward their outer Vends so as to provide awide tachment, showing the same connected with the flaring mouth, andifdesired the plates I8 and I1 55 the fingers of the operator beingcaught between4 the rolls. l

Changes in details may be made without departing from the spirit or thescope of this invention, but what I claim as new is:-

As a new article of manufacture, a guai-gland clothes-feeding attachmentfor clothes wringers comprising .a pair of side bars having at upper andlower faces, said side bars diverging toward their outer ends andgradually increasing in thickness toward said outer ends, a feed platesecured to the lower faces of the side bars, a guard plate secured tothe top faces of the side bars, the inner ends of the plates terminatingsubstantially in the samevertical plane, the

outer end of the guard plate being rolled back 10 defining a stopflange, and said feed plate having a portion extending a materialdistance forwardly of said rolled end of the guard plate constituting aninitial clothes-receiving member,

and brackets carried by the guard for rigid con- 15 nection with aclothes wringer.

' NICHOLAS G. PFEIL.

